Conor B. Hamill
Senior Data Scientist at NatWest Group | Experimental Nuclear Astrophysics PhD Graduate

Senior Data Scientist
NatWest Group
Edinburgh, Scotland
Data scientist/AI researcher working in financial services, based in Edinburgh, Scotland. My interests consist of supervised learning techniques, agent-based modelling, model drift estimation, and human-like abilities of large language models, alongside enduring curiosity about astrophysics and quantum computing. Outside data science, I enjoy travelling with my wife, espionage and thriller novels, comedy podcasts, and cooking.
I graduated from my integrated Master’s in Physics from Queen’s University, Belfast in 2017. My Master’s project consisted of contributing to the development of a laser system for discriminating between chiral molecules, with experiments taking place at Uppsala University.
Following my Master’s, I started my PhD in experimental nuclear astrophysics at the University of Edinburgh. My initial research included being part of the A2 collaboration at the Mainz Microtron MAMI, Germany, with focus on photo-nuclear reactions. I undertook simulations and experimental preparation for the measurement of astrophysical reactions relevant to the production of radioactive nuclei in supernovae at the ISOLDE facility at CERN and a participated in the running of experiments into radioactive isotopes at the CRIB facility, Japan. My main PhD research topic consisted on measuring transfer reactions at TUNL, North Carolina, USA, for nova explosions and the astrophysical weak s-process, which can be read here.
I defended my PhD in 2021 and joined NatWest Group as a data scientist in the Data Science & Innovation team. My work at NatWest has consisted of developing machine learning models across a range of domains in the bank, as well as undertaking AI research for financial services as part of the NatWest AI Research (NAIR) team.
My published research works as a PhD research student and during my time as part of NAIR in NatWest can be found under the publications tab, as well as by following the link to my Google Scholar profile below.
news
Jan 13, 2025 | My work as part of NatWest AI Research (NAIR) using agent-based modelling to model credit card promotions is published in the International Journal of Bank Marketing ![]() |
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Dec 10, 2024 | Attended NeurIPS 2024, sponsored by NatWest |
Sep 06, 2024 | On the 6th September, Raad Khraishi and I will be presenting a talk at ODSC Europe 2024, titled “Simulating Human Behaviour in Financial Contexts: Leveraging AI and Agent-Based Models”, highlighting some of the research being undertaken at NatWest Group. ![]() |
Aug 21, 2024 | Represented NatWest at the careers event of the 2024 Nuclear Physics Summer School in Durham |
latest posts
Dec 29, 2024 | My 2024 in reading |
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Sep 08, 2024 | So you want to get into data science? |
Jun 18, 2024 | What I would tell myself at the start of my PhD |